Keep your creativity flowing with Fishamble's #TinyPlayChallengeIn these challenging times, Fishamble - along with many of our colleagues in the wider Irish artistic community - is working hard to keep imaginations lively, communities engaged - and most of all offer people the opportunity of creative expression. We asked our audiences: Would you welcome the challenge of exploring your thoughts and feelings through drama? Do you have a dramatic story that you feel the urge to work out for yourself, and maybe share with your fellow citizens?​Below is one of the chosen plays from our weekly submissions.​

Three women (any age) are playing with Barbies, surrounded byaccessories.

MOLLYWe are young and living in our Dream House together

SAMWith our rich husbands who we are in love with

ADDYExcept for my husband, who died tragically

SAMYou cried for days

MOLLYWe are happy with our careers

ADDYWe are successes!

MOLLYHappy with things!

SAMDishwasher/

ADDYpool/

SAMprivate jet/

MOLLYPink/ pink/ pinkuntil lunch.

ADDYThree meals a day for forever is a harsh sentence

MOLLYThe first time I ordered Domino’s on my own--Pizza/

SAMbreadsticks/

ADDYcinnamon twists--

MOLLYI wept because it felt like self-sufficiency

SAMIndepence

ADDYBecause we’d talked so much about freedom and this was my way of understanding what thatmeant

MOLLYI want and want,I am struggling to keep up with all the THINGS,I am getting better and better!

SAMOr maybe fuller and fuller!

ADDYMy unpacked suitcase is expanding and I am already thinking of the day when I will pack mythings againAnd be unhappy elsewhere

MOLLYI send the same sad texts to the same two people who still make me feel better thanVintage earrings from Ebay ever did,

SAMI rediscover a facebook photo from 2013,(life is long, isn’t it)

ADDYI reveal to my public the album that helped me discover hip hop,of course no one cares like I do.

MOLLYI hold tight to the things I have created to be truths

ADDYI love Kanye

SAMI don’t eat meat,

MOLLYI dare to call myself artist from a young age and never recover.No one ever looks at me and says “you’ve changed”,So I say it to myself in fits of imagined fatness or glow.

ADDYI love and love and loveShitty teen romances and girlpop on repeat,

SAMTwo weeks of yoga that don’t save my soul,

MOLLYTwo years of dyed hair to sayI CANNOT CONTINUE TO BE THE PERSON I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN

SAMA crate of cleaning products and do we have to keep doing this?Will I always, always be consuming?

MOLLYBut Kesha is back without her dollar sign,

SAMThe Dixie Chicks are on the Top Charts again,Emerging from their pre-Spotify glory dayssinging about psychological manipulation,

ADDYAnd I am asking and asking if anyone has checked up on Trippie, on Frank, on Kendrick,To let him know we ARE praying for himTo let him know his music is how we pray now,We are joyful and singing together,We have no right.

MOLLYThe rappers are driving themselves to extinction

ADDYSoon we will be of the age where all our idols are dead

MOLLYBut I have my 70 pack of Jaffa cakes coming in the mail

ADDYMy case of wine

SAMMy beetroot serum.

MOLLYThe impermanence of my Self and the dreadful permanence of every day.But we are young and your names are still on my phone screen

SAMGreen dots by your names

ADDYA reassurance

MOLLYYou are still tethered to the EarthNothing is lost

Julia Marks is an actor and theatre-maker originally from South Carolina. She graduated from the Gaiety School of Acting in 2019, and previously received a BA in Theatre from the College of Charleston. She is a founding member of iii States Collective, a producing company focused on challenging theatrical form and expectations. They recently staged their first original work, Cove Creek Boys and Summer Girls, at the Scene and Heard Festival 2020, which was her professional writing and acting debut. You can find her on Instagram at @iiistates or @theconfessionrooms.